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OFS Members and Supporters!

 

Several fundraising events are being hosted at the Capitol Theater and around Olympia in which we hope you can attend! Our friends at Traditions Cafe will host the final two days ofFREE LIVE MUSIC Saturday August 3 and Sunday August 4th. Get downtown for some of the best jazz music that Olympia has to offer!

 

OFS is thrilled to announce actor Elliott Gould

will be coming to OFS to help us raise funds for digital cinema upgrades and equipment that will allow us to continue to show new movie titles for the film festival and future programming.  

 

SAVE THE DATES:  Friday Oct 18 in Bellevue and Saturday Oct 19 in Olympia

 

Meet actor Elliott Gould at any of three fundraising events. On Friday October 18th Mr. Gould will be at an OFS fundraising dinner in Bellevue at Goldberg's Famous Delicatessen. 

 

On Saturday October 19th in the afternoon he will be at a fundraiser at a private location in Olympia and in the evening at our very own Capitol Theater for a screening of M*A*S*H (1970). The Olympia Film Society is grateful to Mr. Gould for his interest in supporting our Digital Cinema Campaign. 

 

Tickets will be available online at the OFS site only and go on sale at midnight Friday, August 9th.

 

For those interested in helping but unable to attend, please visit www.olympiafilmsociety.org to support the effort.  

 

For further information on the implications of digital conversion, see this Indiewire online article for a national perspective.

 

To date OFS has raised just over $22,000 with a goal of $65,000.  With your support will get there!

 

See you at the Capitol Theater,

 

Audrey Henley 

Facility & Operations Director

Olympia Film Society

Digital Cinema Campaign Fundraising Events at Traditions Fair Trade Cafe!

 

Saturday August 3rd and Sunday  4th:  FREE LIVE MUSIC

 

Join us at Traditions Fair Trade for the last two days  of FREE LIVE MUSIC to help raise funds for our Digital Cinema Campaign!  Come to Traditions and contribute anytime! Special Incentives for contributing levels!

 

Saturday 8/3 3:00pm - Dan Walker & Shannon DeLong, guitar and song

 

Sunday 8/4 2:30pm - Jazz Band

 

Located at Traditions Fair Trade Cafe, 300 5th Avenue SW, downtown Olympia.

 

For more information:  360-705-2819 Traditions Facebook Page

 

M*A*S*H 
Dir Robert Altman / 1970 / US / 116 min / 35mm 
 
Pre-screening Q&A with Elliott Gould in person on the Capitol Theater stage!   
Advance online tickets on sale  

August 9th  at midnight! 

 

6:00 box office/7:00pm show

$15.00 General Admission

$12.00 OFS Members 

 

(please consider additional contributions at the box office)

 

Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of Hollywood's 1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young filmmakers. Scripted by Hollywood veteran Ring Lardner, Jr., this war comedy details the exploits of military doctors and nurses at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War. Between exceptionally gory hospital shifts and countless rounds of martinis, wisecracking surgeons Hawkeye Pierce (Donald Sutherland) and Trapper John McIntyre (Elliott Gould) make it their business to undercut the smug, moralistic pretensions of Bible-thumper Maj. Frank Burns (Robert Duvall) and Army true-believer Maj. "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Sally Kellerman). Abetted by such other hedonists as Duke Forrest (Tom Skerritt) and Painless Pole (John Schuck), as well as such (relative) innocents as Radar O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff), Hawkeye and Trapper John drive Burns and Houlihan crazy while engaging in such additional blasphemies as taking a medical trip to Japan to play golf, staging a mock Last Supper to cure Painless's momentary erectile dysfunction, and using any means necessary to win an inter-MASH football game. 
 
MASH creates a casual, chaotic atmosphere emphasizing the constant noise and activity of a surgical unit near battle lines; it marked the beginning of Altman's sustained formal experiments with widescreen photography, zoom lenses, and overlapping sound and dialogue, further enhancing the atmosphere with the improvisational ensemble acting for which Altman's films quickly became known.
 
MASH became the third most popular film of 1970 after Love Story and Airport, and it was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
 ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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